Lent

The title of Arizona poet laureate Alberto Álvaro Ríos’ memoir is "Capirotada," the name of the anything-goes bread pudding from Mexico that typically shows up on menus around Los Angeles during Lent. “Mexican cooking’s version of fruitcake” is how Ríos describes the dish adding that it's made with “a zoo of foods.” A classic capirotada — if such a thing even exists — is stale or toasted bread soaked in a syrup (often referred to as the “honey”) made of piloncillo (Mexican brown sugar), cinnamon, cloves and sometimes nutmeg, peppercorns, star anise or coriander. But the list of other...

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